Education:
1948 | Art Students League, New York, NY; Carl Holty & Sidney Laufman |
1949 | Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH; Leroy Flint |
1953 | New Orleans, LA; Charles Campbell |
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
1998 | Chasing That Kite, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA (April-Aug.) |
1995 | Something To Come Home To, Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA (Jan.-Feb.) |
1992 | Don Martin Memorial Exhibition, Canter Art Center, Healdsburg, CA (March-April) |
1991 | Don Martin Memorial Exhibition, Santa Cruz Art League, Ella Gray Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA (Nov.-Dec.) |
1975 | Don Martin Paintings and Drawings, Cooper House Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA (September) |
1963 | Magic Like Art, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1954 | Don Martin, Grabados y Pinturas, Casa del Arte, Guadalajara, Mexico (August) |
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2019 | Don Martin and other Masters of California Post-War Art, Calabi Gallery, Santa Rosa, California (May-July) |
2018 | Collecting on the Edge, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah (Sept-Dec) |
2015 | Transcendence, Abstraction & Symbolism in the American West, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT (Sept.-May) |
2012-13 | Local Color, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (July-Jan.) |
2017-11 | Uses of the Real, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT |
2003-04 | Hidden Lives, the Art of Eleanor Prager and Don Martin, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (July-Jan.) |
1997 | Beat Week, Museum of Art & History of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA (October) Flashback, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA (June-Sept.) |
1996 | The ReBeat Art Exhibit, Somar Gallery, San Francisco (Oct.-Nov.) |
1994 | Black + White, The Pope Gallery, Santa Cruz (April-May) Exemplary Contemporary 1994: An Exhibition of Collage and Assemblage, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA (May-June) |
1988-89 | Santa Cruz Painting ’88, The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA (Dec.-Jan.) |
1975 | Collage and Assemblage in Southern California, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (March-May) |
Museum Collections:
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, California
Publications:
Collecting on the Edge: Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
Bolton Coburn Editor, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art Collections Publication
© 2018 Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Selections
The San Jose Museum of Art Permanent Collection
Edited and with an introduction by Susan Landauer
© 2004 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
What Book! Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
Edited by Gary Gach, Foreword by Peter Coyote
Parallax Press, Berkeley, CA, 1998 © Gary Gach, 1998
[Cover painting]
Pipe Dreams
Poetry by Martin Matz
Special performance issue, limited edition of 100
Don Kennison, New York, New York, 1989
[Cover drawing]
Selected Private Collections:
Anna Abend, California
Larry Bornstein, Louisiana
DeWoody Collection, Florida
Muldoon Elder, California
Gilbert-Fagen Family, California
Helaine Glick, California
Mariah Hicks, Utah
David Hirsh, California
Alice Kilham, Oregon
Rachel McKay, California
Jerry & Berda Morley, California
Ivan Morley, California
Kamala Rose, Washington
Jessica Tateishi, Hawaii
Hadwig Schneck, California
Max Waldron, California
DeWoody Collection, Florida
Muldoon Elder, California
Gilbert-Fagen Family, California
Helaine Glick, California
Mariah Hicks, Utah
David Hirsh, California
Alice Kilham, Oregon
Rachel McKay, California
Jerry & Berda Morley, California
Ivan Morley, California
Kamala Rose, Washington
Jessica Tateishi, Hawaii
Hadwig Schneck, California
Max Waldron, California